The news of an alleged plot by Idris Isah Jere,  the Acting Comptroller General of Immigration Services (CGIS) to extend his tenure for another one year period appears to be causing the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to  boil. According to the report, the CGI was due to have proceeded to retire from service last year but was asked to continue in service for one year, which ends this April. However it appears the Immigration boss is...

Sen. Dino Melaye emerged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kogi State  after clinching the ticket in a congress held at Kefas Multipurpose Hall, where he pulled over fifty percent of the votes cast. Melaye pulled over 300 votes to win his closest rival Barr. Kabiru Usman who had over 100 votes. However, the election was tension soaked, with protests leading to the congress over the delegates list, and the process, even though...

An aggrieved All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Bayelsa State, Festus Daumiebi has rejected the result of the party’s primary election for the November 11, 2023 governorship election. Timipre Sylva, former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, emerged as the APC governorship candidate defeating Daumiebi and four other contenders in the exercise conducted on Friday and Saturday. Sylva was declared winner by the chairman of the APC primary election committee for Bayelsa, Major-Gen. Ahmed...

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing has dismissed the controversies surrounding the  President-elect, Bola Tinubu, noting that “those issues don’t matter”. Tinubu has been embroiled in a series of scandals lately which borders on his identity, age, academic qualifications, and source of wealth. The latest is the allegation that he holds dual citizenship. Speaking in an interview on Channels TV on Sunday, Fashola, who was Tinubu’s chief of staff during his tenure as the...

The controversy about the President-elect, Bola Tinubu has taken a fresh plot after his Guinean passport, which shows that he holds dual citizenship, surfaced on social media. On Saturday, investigative journalist David Hundeyin shared photos of a Guinean diplomatic passport bearing ‘Bola Ahmed Tinubu’ and the President-elect’s image on his Twitter page. The passport was issued in October 2015 and expired in October 2020. Hundeyin also shared a section of Tinubu’s EC-9 form — application...

Nigeria took a dramatic turn on Sunday, April 16, 2023, when the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State Barr. Yunusa Hudu Ari declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC, Sen. Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani as Governor-elect. The REC declared the results amidst tight security in the presence of the Commissioner of Police in the state, the Director of DSS in the state, and the State Commandant of the NSCDC. While supporters of APC...